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The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

Garraway, Doris L.

Paperback

Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book

Caribbean HistoryFrench HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0822334658
ISBN13: 9780822334651
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 8 2005
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.39
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a pathbreaking contribution to the study of the cultural contact, creolization, and social transformation that resulted in one of the most profitable yet brutal slave societies in history. Garraway's readings highlight how French colonial writers characterized the Caribbean as a space of spiritual, social, and moral depravity. While tracing this critique in colonial accounts of Island Carib cultures, piracy, spirit beliefs, slavery, miscegenation, and incest, Garraway develops a theory of the libertine colony. She argues that desire and sexuality were fundamental to practices of domination, laws of exclusion, and constructions of race in the slave societies of the colonial French Caribbean.

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